Cultivation : I'm an Ancient Giant Bear-Chapter 454 - 427: Hidden Origin Common Vault

"How do you evaluate the Hidden Origin Association?"

Wang Wu asked another question. In fact, this question was somewhat inappropriate, and it might even cause Xu Taiping to become suspicious.

But Xu Taiping, an elite who rose from the grassroots, might have a unique perspective.

Moreover, he also did it somewhat intentionally, to show that he was actually inexperienced and rather naive.

Sure enough, Xu Taiping was silent. He did not want to answer such a topic, and such a way of asking seemed quite lacking in sophistication.

However, considering the other party was an Eighth Grade Elder of the Hidden Origin Association, perhaps the Master of a certain sub-branch, the question could be understood.

"This humble one dares to ask, True Immortal Master, what kind of evaluation do you wish to hear?"

"Regardless of good or bad, evaluate it from your own perspective, and then from a larger perspective as per your understanding."

"Yes!"

Xu Taiping thought for a moment and then said, "For someone like me, the Hidden Origin Association is quite good. After all, mortals living in a city protected by the Hidden Origin Association should feel very fortunate, having a high chance of living a complete and happy life."

"Moreover, the Hidden Origin Association is also a relatively friendly force towards loose cultivators. As a loose cultivator, it’s quite easy to find a foothold. The Common Vault of the Hidden Origin Association can basically meet daily cultivation needs."

"This humble one worked at the Cyan Dragon Immortal Alliance sub-branch of the Hidden Origin Association for six hundred years. It was thanks to those six hundred years that my cultivation made significant progress, laying a solid foundation. However, there are also faction conflicts and severe strife within the Hidden Origin Association, which I witnessed firsthand and was quite terrified of, so I’ve always acted low-key. Later, seeing no hope for promotion, I traveled far and wide until now."

"As for making me evaluate the entire Hidden Origin Association, in fact, I really have no way to judge. What qualifications or capabilities does this humble one have! I beg the True Immortal Master for forgiveness."

Hearing this, Wang Wu slightly smiled and did not ask anything further.

"Then let’s officially begin. Now, please initiate Circulation Transformation on your own. I will deploy the Foundation Establishment Array based on the circulation state of your spirit pill and Spiritual Qi."

"Yes!"

Xu Taiping readily followed Wang Wu’s instructions without any hesitation.

Meanwhile, Wang Wu immediately activated Level 18 Spirit Essence Perception to record everything relevant.

In fact, deploying the Foundation Establishment Array at Xu Taiping’s current cultivation level was very easy—extremely easy. If possible, Wang Wu guaranteed the deployment could be completed within the time it takes an incense stick to burn.

However, this time, he planned to take six days.

In fact, he didn’t even start on the first day; he was solely focused on learning. Only on the second day did he complete the deployment on one of Xu Taiping’s spirit pills.

The process was arduous and intricate.

In this way, completing the deployment of one spirit pill per day took exactly six days.

Actually, on the sixth day, Wang Wu was surprised to find that Xu Taiping was already secretly deducing on his own.

With the already formed four-fifths of the Five Elements Spirit Array, he could almost deduce the remaining one-fifth.

Too impressive.

As a result, as soon as the Five Elements Spirit Array finished deployment, it almost immediately became combat-ready in Xu Taiping’s hands!

Yes, previously, after She Shoujiu completed the deployment of the Foundation Establishment Array, it required half a year to become combat-ready. This was the greatest difference.

At this moment, Xu Taiping’s overall combat power increased by 1.5 times, and it might later rise to 1.8 to two times.

What does this mean? This means that Xu Taiping now possesses the ability to penetrate Fire Armor and truly harm Wang Wu.

In the future, if Wang Wu stagnates, perhaps once Xu Taiping fully comprehends and perfectly utilizes it, there will be a great chance that Xu Taiping will defeat, and even, kill Wang Wu!

Wang Wu even had a feeling that, through this Tier One Foundation Establishment Array, Xu Taiping might burst through the barrier on his own and deduce and deploy a Tier Two Foundation Establishment Array.

"Thank you, True Immortal Master, for your kindness and guidance. If the True Immortal Master ever needs anything in the future, this humble one will do my utmost to repay."

Xu Taiping respectfully kowtowed three times to Wang Wu.

His gaze was deep and profound, akin to the deep sea, yet it couldn’t hide the dazzling sharpness.

But to Wang Wu, this was still a very interesting matter.

"I keep my word; it’s just a favor, that’s all. Once you repay this favor, we are no longer associated, and henceforth, unless I seek you to repay the favor, I do not know you, and you should not know me, nor should you have ever been to Dragon Head City."

"Now, you may leave. The path to immortality is distant; I wish you well."

Wang Wu waved his hand and directly sent Xu Taiping out of the cave dwelling.

Then he intentionally went to find She Shoujiu and Madam Yu, asking them to forcibly erase this segment of memory.

Whether Xu Taiping or Wen Taiping, neither existed, and they weren’t known at all.

In the end, Wang Wu even secretly supervised Xu Taiping until he truly left a hundred thousand miles from Dragon Head City before he felt relieved.

Henceforth, no matter what trouble Xu Taiping causes, it will have nothing to do with him.

Upon returning to the cave dwelling, Wang Wu could no longer suppress his smile as the harvest this time was immense.

So, this is how Spiritual Qi circulates; so, this is how spirit pills are controlled?

Not to mention other spirit pills, just by this review and correction, the comprehensive efficiency of his Fire Spirit Pill has directly increased by ten percent.

This almost enabled Wang Wu’s Red Flame Spiritual Qi circulation speed to successfully break through nine thousand times per second, and the quality of Red Flame Spiritual Qi could improve to Level 6.5 on its own.

The related Daoist Divine Techniques were like instant enlightenment.

Because his foundation in this aspect was already quite good, now it was elevated to ultimate perfection.

Unfortunately, due to limitations in perspective, even the Four Clowns couldn’t provide a complete and comprehensive evaluation of Wang Wu’s Fire Spirit Pill, and its exact level remains unknown.

We’ll have to understand this slowly in the future.

Of course, this effect is only limited to the Fire Spirit Pill.

The other three kinds of Spirit Pills require closed-door cultivation.

As for the Earth Spirit Pill, Xu Taiping didn’t have any, so Wang Wu couldn’t learn it.

Next, he was eager to go into seclusion immediately, but he currently didn’t have any extra Spiritual Qi; instinctively, he opened the Jade Talisman and entered the Hidden Origin Association’s Common Vault to exchange for Spiritual Qi.

However, he quickly changed his mind; those five hundred thousand strands of the Five Qi of the Human World should not be consumed, better to keep them for emergencies.

As for how to acquire Spiritual Qi, it’s simple.

Just sell Level 6 Red Flame Spiritual Qi.

Yes, the Hidden Origin Association’s Common Vault is equivalent to the small commodity wholesale market back at home on Earth, plus a mix of essentials, trinkets, oddities, and more.

Because one of the core elements of the Hidden Origin Association is commerce.

Here, there is large volume cargo handling, small volume wholesale, personal selling, auctions, consignments, and various trading methods similar to pawnshops, recycling, and customization.

This is where the real business opportunities lie in some sense.

And this platform called the Common Vault is supported by the twelve Hidden Origin Bells.

You can understand it as the logistics network, communication network, world wide web, courier service and storage center of the Cultivation Realm.

Over on Earth, you still have to wait a few days after placing an order; here everything is settled and delivered instantly.

Yes, of course, there are thresholds.

First, you need to have certain permissions; otherwise, you still need to pay delivery fees.

People like Wang Wu, She Shoujiu, and Madam Yu have their own exclusive delivery addresses. Other Stewards of the Hidden Origin Association need to pay certain fees, or use the receiving address of a branch of the Hidden Origin Association, or directly specify their own Storage Pouch.

The Hidden Element Jade Talisman is pretty much equivalent to a personal universal terminal.

If you have enough Five Qi of the Human World, you can even subscribe to various anecdotes and curiosities from the Cultivation Realm, including all sorts of explanations and puzzles, and even issue your own Hidden Element Tasks.

A perfect Hidden Origin Association ecosystem.

At this moment, Wang Wu had a thought, and all around him were various stalls, making him feel as if he were there in person.

Moreover, these stalls would categorize themselves based on his needs and sort themselves in real time, accompanied by free messages, such as today’s bulk purchase price of Spiritual Qi, today’s selling price of Profound Iron, and many items like futures or stocks.

However, these large orders of futures are beyond him; a single order is typically as standard as one hundred billion Fighting Spiritual Qi. It’s a joke, it’s untouchable.

Corresponding to this kind of large order futures is the conventional pricing index of the Hidden Origin Association’s Common Vault.

Here you can clearly see the daily oil price, oh no, the daily Spiritual Qi price.

It is adjusted on average once every seven days, something many Loose Cultivators are very concerned about.

You won’t see anyone on the way because Wang Wu chose the quiet browsing mode, and even the stall owners are concealed.

But if he chose the "people everywhere" mode, he would see a massive crowd.

Additionally, you can freely log into special channels such as the Hidden Origin Association Official Forum, Hidden Realm, Yuan Station, and Little Hidden Book.

Here, you don’t see people; what you see are pieces of information, and once you enter, you’ll find the Cultivation Realm is vast, with countless Cultivators, endless bustling dust, ordinary like the rest, all just solitary geese in the human world, ephemeral like mayflies in the world.

Truly an information-driven Cultivation era.

And this is just the ecosystem of the single large force of the Hidden Origin Association.

The Immortals have even more tricks.

Wang Wu just took a quick look, without delving deep; there’s certainly value, but temporarily it’s of no importance to him.

Once the target item is selected, a row of the latest price lists will come up.

Ordinary Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi is still such that one strand of the Five Qi of the Human World can be exchanged for 101 points (Dou), a price slightly lower than a hundred years ago.

Then there is the Spiritual Qi of different attributes, and here, they use the most ordinary and convenient level standards for calculation.

Such as Level 1 Red Flame Spiritual Qi, Level 2 Cold Ice Spiritual Qi, etc.

The pattern of index increase among them is 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and so on, and so forth.

Wang Wu’s Level 6 Red Flame Spiritual Qi was also selected based on this standard.

At this moment, he didn’t look at anything else, just the Red Flame Spiritual Qi.

The latest price for Level 1 Red Flame Spiritual Qi is that one strand of the Five Qi of the Human World can be exchanged for 90 points of Red Flame Spiritual Qi, a quite reasonable price.

The price for Level 2 Red Flame Spiritual Qi is a bit outrageous; one strand of the Five Qi of the Human World can only exchange for 1 point of Red Flame Spiritual Qi. Although in reality, if you have a Fire Spirit Pill and know how to cultivate, you need to consume at most 2 points of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to cultivate 1 point of Red Flame Spiritual Qi.

Because these are two different things.

It’s like a steamed bun selling for 2 yuan, but the ingredients might cost only a few cents.

You have to consider the rent, staff wages, time and energy consumed, machine costs, profit, and so on.

Wang Wu’s Level 6 Red Flame Spiritual Qi can be converted using only 32 points of ordinary Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, but if someone generously offered 64 points of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi as if saying, hey, let you earn double, hurry up and thank me, he would beat out that person’s guts!

So the latest price for Level 3 Red Flame Spiritual Qi is that one point of Level 3 Red Flame Spiritual Qi needs 24 strands of the Five Qi of the Human World, equivalent to about 2400 points of conventional Spiritual Qi.

The profit margin is huge.